Not waiting for others – taking out own action
Not waiting for others – taking out own action
However, instead of waiting for a grand state solution, managers at the Chennai plant decided to take action themselves, one of which was Murali V., manager for maintenance and services. The main objective was to use water more intelligently than before in order to reduce consumption. Für Murali V., this was the only reasonable approach because
“it was particularly dramatic for us in the summer. There is nothing we can change to the existing groundwater, only in how we use it.” This realization was the starting point for the launch of an unusual action “Maintaining the groundwater” at the beginning of 2018.
Up to that point, the plant conveyed its process water from bores and stored it in a tank. Some of this water was used for washing hands and flushing the toilet. Afterwards it was routed directly into the wastewater treatment plant. The internal plant reverse osmosis facility treated another portion of the groundwater stored in the tank as drinking water. In the reverse osmosis facility, a diaphragm allows only water molecules to pass through while holding back solutes. This process produces wastewater that flows directly into the wastewater treatment plant. Every day the plant consumed roughly 37 cubic meters of water and 80 kilowatt hours of power for treatment and the wastewater treatment plant.